<aside> 🚩 This page summarizes all deductions and penalties applied to graded student work that fails to follow certain key rules.
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<aside> ⚠️ Academic consideration will be granted and penalties may be waived only if the student submits an Academic Consideration Request that is “verified” by the appropriate administrative office.
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| LATE SUBMISSION | 25% per day
This applies to the whole item; i.e., if you hand in half of an assignment late, the whole assignment is late.
Since online submissions can be made any day (including holidays), then calculating lateness for online submissions includes every day.
Since hardcopy submissions can only be done during days when the University is open, calculating lateness for hardcopy submissions only includes “business days”.
The “late clock” starts at the due time and runs in 24 hour blocks. For instance, if an item is due by 16:00 on a Thursday, and you submit anytime between 16:00 Thursday and 16:00 Friday, you will incur a one-day late penalty.
All deductions are taken from the total value of the work. Example: If an assignment is graded out of 10, then a 25% deduction means a deduction of 2.5/10. |
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| SUBMITTING CORRUPTED FILES | 10% per day after a grace period
Your TA will inform you, and provide a 24 hour grace period to re-submit uncorrupted files. Thereafter, the penalty will apply to the entire assignment. |
| DOCUMENT-NAMING AND FILE TYPE ERRORS | 2% per document
This applies to naming conventions for reports, assignments, and any other documents submitted for grading, where such conventions are defined by the instructors.
This also applies to submitting the wrong file-type - e.g., submitting a PDF file when a Google Doc or Solidworks file was required. |
| NOT FOLLOWING SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS | 25%
This applies to all other submission requirements, excluding file corruption and naming errors (above) and any other rules covered in the Course Outline.
Examples: Incorrect document template use; incomplete sets of files. |
| SUBMITTING BEFORE THE TASK IS ASSIGNED | 50% per assignment
Assignments submitted before they are actually assigned will be severely penalized. |
| DRAWING WITH TOOLS WHEN INSTRUCTED TO DRAW FREEHAND | 50% per question
This applies to all manual sketches in MEC222, unless specifically directed otherwise by the instructor, and includes drawing on grid or lined paper (unless expressly permitted to do so). |
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| EARLY/LATE IN-LAB SUBMISSIONS | “During the lab” submissions must be made within the period 15 minutes before the end of the lab and 30 minutes after the end of the lab.
Submissions made more than 15 minutes before the end of the lab will be ignored (leading to zero on the assignment).
Submissions made more than 30 minutes after the end of the lab will result in a standard late penalty applied to the whole assignment. |
| EARLY HOMEWORK SUBMISSIONS | “Take-home” assignment components are to be submitted as directed. If a “take-home” component is to be submitted at the start of the next lab session, then that’s when it will be submitted.
Submissions made early (e.g., at the end of the lab in which it is assigned) will suffer a 50% deduction. |
| EDIT TIME OF ≥ 5 MIN AND < 10 MIN | 10% per Solidworks file
Edit time is the time between when a file was first created and the last time the file was saved.
Students are expected to spend at least 10 minutes working on any Solidworks drawing.
Does not apply to Solidworks drawing files. |
| EDIT TIME OF < 5 MIN | 20% per Solidworks file
Does not apply to Solidworks drawing files. |
| EDIT TIME OF < 1 MIN | 50% per Solidworks file
Does not apply to Solidworks drawing files. |
| FILES SUBMITTED SEPARATELY | 25% per assignment
All files must be submitted in a single D2L submission. |
| LAST SAVED BEFORE ASSIGNED | 10% per Solidworks file
If the date/time that the file was last saved is before the date that the work was assigned, the student will lose 10% on that file.
Does not apply to Solidworks drawing files. |
| CREATION DATE BEFORE ASSIGNED | 10% per Solidworks file
If the date/time that the file was created is up to one week before the date that the work was assigned, the student will lose 10% on that file.
Does not apply to Solidworks drawing files. |
| CREATION DATE LONG BEFORE ASSIGNED | 20% per Solidworks file
If the date/time that the file was created is more than one week before the date that work was assigned, the student will lose 20% on that file.
Does not apply to Solidworks drawing files. |
| LATE PTI | 2% per day, including weekends
If you have to do the Personality Temperament Indicator for your course, the late penalty will be applied to your final course grade. See ‣ for more information. |
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| LATE PEER REVIEW | 2% per peer review missed
If peer reviews are expected, this penalty will be applied for each late peer review submission to your final course grade. |
| WDF-RELATED PENALTIES | 5% of project grade if WDF not shared with instructor and TAs by deadlines.
2% of project grade if WDF is incorrectly filled out.
No project grades will be processed until all team members sign (i.e., agree to) WDF content.
Changes made to a WDF after all team members have signed will be interpreted as malicious attempts to take academic advantage of teammates, and will be regarded as Academic Misconduct.
Changes made to another student’s responsibility points, with or without that student’s permission, will be treated as Academic Misconduct.
These penalties apply to WDFs for both milestones and final reports.
See ‣ for more info about WDFs. |
| INCORRECT CAD FILE UPLOAD | 10% of project grade
Refer to CAD Files for further details. |
| HFBN WITHOUT PASSING PROPOSAL | 100% of HFBN grade
Students must pass the proposal stage of an HFBN to receive a grade for the HFBN. |